WTF is that?

LEECHES! Roughly half of my stories could be classified as Halloween-y, but I thought I’d share this one in particular. Everybody thinks they know what leeches are about, what with the sucking and the bleeding and the slimy slimy. But leeches are actually a lot more diverse and complicated than you’d expect. Some can crawl […]

The blue dragon is a sea slug that can steal the powers of its enemies. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. WTF Is That Thing: Nudibranch Edition Look. I’m a lot like you. I spend too much time on Facebook. On Twitter. And yeah, I’ll say it – Pinterest. I read blogs. […]

Opossum Opus Part 3 If you were with us on Part 1, you know that off the highway, opossums are sorta indestructible. If you made it through Part 2, you know their penises are hellish, their wombs magical, and their babies cute as the dickens. Now it’s time to learn why I’ve used the word […]

Opossum Reproduction In Part 1, we discussed the opossum’s ability to survive just about everything excluding the highway. And all that immune-to-venom, balk-at-botulism stuff was pretty wild, but it’s nothing compared to the world of marsupial sex. Crank up the BTO, ‘cus baby, you ain’t seen nothing yet. arsanatomica.tumblr.com When Opossums Rock It Cute stuff […]

Opossums: Survival Machines The opossum is a waddling, mostly nocturnal creature that looks like a cross between a bleached raccoon and a cartoon rat. If you live in North America, you’ve likely seen scores of them as road kill, a sad fact that does nothing to discourage the opossum’s reputation as one of the dumbest […]

WTF is that: Stink Bug Edition One minute your house is a perfect example of domestic civilization. Then without so much as an open window, it’s a buzzing mess of arthropods. And in the majority of the U.S., stink bugs are leading the charge. Aside from invading your home, stink bugs damage our crops and […]

WTF Is That Thing: Slow Loris Edition Maybe I’m getting old or maybe I’m addicted to the internet, but it seems like more and more of our parties devolve into a few of us sitting around a laptop pouring over the latest meme, laughing at clips from the Daily Show and trading videos we “found” […]

Getting to Know Your Everyday House Centipede This is quite possibly one of the most unsettling creatures you can run into when you’re halfway under a bed. They’re all legs and mandibles and antennae, like a tracked vehicle with hair. And you just know Vincent D’Onofrio probably let them crawl all over him or some […]